Orthopristis

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Megaclassis: Osteichthyes
Superclassis/Classis: Actinopterygii
Classis/Subclassis: Actinopteri
Subclassis/Infraclassis: Neopterygii
Infraclassis: Teleostei
Megacohors: Osteoglossocephalai
Supercohors: Clupeocephala
Cohors: Euteleosteomorpha
Subcohors: Neoteleostei
Infracohors: Eurypterygia
Sectio: Ctenosquamata
Subsectio: Acanthomorphata
Divisio/Superordo: Acanthopterygii
Subdivisio: Percomorphaceae
Series: Eupercaria
Ordo: Lutjaniformes

Familia: Haemulidae
Genus: Orthopristis
Species: O. cantharinus – O. chalceus – O. chrysoptera – O. forbesi – O. lethopristis – O. poeyi – O. reddingi – O. ruber – O. scapularis
Name

Orthopristis Girard, 1858
References

Template:Girard, 1858

Marceniuk, A., Caires, R.A., Machado, L., Cerqueira, N.N.C.D., Rayla Roberta M. De S. Serra & Oliveira, C. 2019. Redescription of Orthopristis ruber and Orthopristis scapularis (Haemulidae: Perciformes), with a hybridization zone off the Atlantic coast of South America. Zootaxa 4576(1): 109–126. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4576.1.5 Paywall Reference page.

Links

Orthopristis – Taxon details on Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
Orthopristis species list in FishBase,
Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2024. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.

Vernacular names
English: Pigfishes
français: Gorets

Orthopristis is a genus of marine ray-finned fish, grunts belonging to family Haemulidae. They are found in the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the Americas.[1]
Species

The currently recognized species in this genus are:[1]

Orthopristis cantharinus (Jenyns, 1840) (sheephead grunt)
Orthopristis chalceus (Günther, 1864) (brassy grunt)
Orthopristis chrysoptera (Linnaeus, 1766) (pigfish)
Orthopristis forbesi D. S. Jordan & Starks, 1897
Orthopristis lethopristis D. S. Jordan & Fesler, 1889 (scalyfin grunt)
Orthopristis reddingi D. S. Jordan & R. E. Richardson, 1895 (bronze-striped grunt)
Orthopristis ruber (G. Cuvier, 1830) (corocoro grunt)
Orthopristis scapularis Fowler, 1915 (South American grunt)[2][3]

The extinct species O. burlesonis (formerly Allomorone burlesonis Frizzell and Dante, 1965) is known from otoliths from the Middle Eocene of the southern United States.[4][5]
References

Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2013). Species of Orthopristis in FishBase. August 2013 version.
"CAS - Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes". researcharchive.calacademy.org. Retrieved 2023-06-27.
"Roncador-Sul-Americano (Orthopristis scapularis)". BioDiversity4All (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2023-06-27.
"PBDB". paleobiodb.org. Retrieved 2024-02-29.
Lin, Chien-Hsiang; Nolf, Dirk (2022-04-20). "Middle and late Eocene fish otoliths from the eastern and southern USA". European Journal of Taxonomy. 814: 1–122. doi:10.5852/ejt.2022.814.1745. ISSN 2118-9773.